The moral mandate to achieve success exerts pressure to succeed by fair means, if possible, and by foul means, if necessary.
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AMIT KALANTRI Get wealth and power, if possible by grace,
If not, by any means, get wealth and place.
ROBERT POLLOK Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
SALLUST By any means necessary.
MALCOLM X Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
JOHN CLARKE If he does not wish for his own success by unfair means, then he is good, wise, and virtuous.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and adulation of the public...
ROBERT MONTGOMERY If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
W. CLEMENT STONE God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.
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YASUNORI SONE If you play just to stay healthy and to win, by all means, keep playing.
AMIT KALANTRI We just told each other we had to get a win by any means necessary.
DEVAN DOWNEY Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.
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HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:
1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."
The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality,...
DALAL GEBARA Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
UNKNOWN First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary mean...
ARISTOTLE If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.
DAVID HALBERSTAM If you have determined to achieve something by the strong backup of your conscience, you must make i...
CHANDRABABU V.S. We felt that there should be a competitive mechanism by which pan-European companies can obtain pan-...
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CARROLL QUIGLEY That’s not fair!
Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN We will fight this nomination tooth and nail. We have taken the position of: By all means necessary.
HILARY SHELTON If persistence can discover success,then it means success is a student of persistence.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to bu...
DEYTH BANGER There is a way to do everything.
However, it's important to use the most effective means in order to...
DETECTIVE DAVID LOVE People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' def...
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SOKE BEHZAD AHMADI We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to re...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
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LEE CHILD Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.
LOUISE L. HAY Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and y...
MICHELLE GEANEY To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
STIRLING MOSS All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO The prosecution has an ethical duty to ensure not just that they get a conviction when the defendant...
MARCIA CLARK If Well begun means Half done, then Possible means Half + quarter done. Then just do the remaining q...
SATHESH KUMAR M They should reconsider and reexamine what they are doing, ... They should not be misled again into b...
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SUNDAY ADELAJA You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you a...
WILHELM REICH If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledg...
KAREL CAPEK By all means. If they want to come with their lawn chairs, they are certainly welcome to that.
VANCE AGEE Having drive is a big part of success, along with integrity. You need to have a clear vision of what...
VONDA SHEPARD He didn't get the best possible results, but by no means the worst possible either. I think it's goo...
BARRY SCHECK I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
JULES VERNE If there was genuine desire on the Israeli side, even without a solution, it would be possible to so...
SAYED KASHUA If you know were your going, you will do by all means in order to reach your destiny.
NEMUKONDENI TSHIMBILUNI The fact that the Iranians are successful time after time in getting away from international pressur...
DAN HALUTZ People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL I am the instigator of my adversities but at the same time I am the architect of my success.
KARON WADDELL Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educat...
G. K. CHESTERTON Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educat...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educat...
G.K. CHESTERTON If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will be...
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ROBERT L. HEILBRONER First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thin...
JOE TORRE Success loves preparation. If the perfect opportunity is being presented itself today, you must grab...
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NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
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LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
-The Seventy...
HOWARD TAYLER Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.
-The Seventy M...
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When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still.
Baggy jumpers don�...
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ROSE GEORGE Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important a...
BRANDON SANDERSON If you're surprised by getting the job done, that means you didn't expect it out of yourself.
HUSTON STREET But they didn't raise squat, so the next election cycle, they decided to do it by any means necessar...
ANDREW WHEAT Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Amidst immense obstacles,the only way to succeed is by focusing on success.
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PAUL MERTON Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real
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THOMAS MERTON To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many...
THOMAS MERTON We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who ha...
THOMAS MERTON To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to li...
THOMAS MERTON We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to th...
THOMAS MERTON If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
THOMAS MERTON On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn&...
PAUL MERTON Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
THOMAS MERTON To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many...
THOMAS MERTON Be still:
There is no longer any need of comment.
It was a lucky wind
That blew away ...
THOMAS MERTON For Abelard, the death of Christ on the Cross did not, strictly speaking, redeem man: it only offere...
THOMAS MERTON And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,
And as each blow was paid with Blood,
Y...
THOMAS MERTON Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it o...
THOMAS MERTON I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
THOMAS MERTON All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of t...
THOMAS MERTON Ian Hislop is going to be the new Doctor Who.
PAUL MERTON My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the miser...
PAUL MERTON On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn'...
PAUL MERTON Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to t...
THOMAS MERTON Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.
THOMAS MERTON I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of ...
THOMAS MERTON What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from...
THOMAS MERTON We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at th...
THOMAS MERTON We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace ...
THOMAS MERTON